Mesoscopic physics of nanomechanical systems

A Bachtold, J Moser, MI Dykman - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because
nanomechanical systems are small, fluctuations are significant, the vibrations already …

[HTML][HTML] Effective quality factor tuning mechanisms in micromechanical resonators

JML Miller, A Ansari, DB Heinz, Y Chen… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Quality factor (Q) is an important property of micro-and nano-electromechanical (MEM/NEM)
resonators that underlie timing references, frequency sources, atomic force microscopes …

Stabilized entanglement of massive mechanical oscillators

CF Ockeloen-Korppi, E Damskägg, JM Pirkkalainen… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon whereby systems cannot be described
independently of each other, even though they may be separated by an arbitrarily large …

Non-Hermitian chiral phononics through optomechanically induced squeezing

J Del Pino, JJ Slim, E Verhagen - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Imposing chirality on a physical system engenders unconventional energy flow and
responses, such as the Aharonov–Bohm effect and the topological quantum Hall phase for …

Squeezing of quantum noise of motion in a micromechanical resonator

JM Pirkkalainen, E Damskägg, M Brandt, F Massel… - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
A pair of conjugate observables, such as the quadrature amplitudes of harmonic motion,
have fundamental fluctuations that are bound by the Heisenberg uncertainty relation …

Dynamical strong coupling and parametric amplification of mechanical modes of graphene drums

JP Mathew, RN Patel, A Borah, R Vijay… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Mechanical resonators are ubiquitous in modern information technology. With the possibility
of coupling them to electromagnetic and plasmonic modes, they hold promise as the key …

Electrical tuning of elastic wave propagation in nanomechanical lattices at MHz frequencies

J Cha, C Daraio - Nature nanotechnology, 2018 - nature.com
Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) that operate in the megahertz (MHz) regime allow
energy transducibility between different physical domains. For example, they convert optical …

Quantum backaction evading measurement of collective mechanical modes

CF Ockeloen-Korppi, E Damskägg, JM Pirkkalainen… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
The standard quantum limit constrains the precision of an oscillator position measurement. It
arises from a balance between the imprecision and the quantum backaction of the …

Dynamic modulation of modal coupling in microelectromechanical gyroscopic ring resonators

X Zhou, C Zhao, D Xiao, J Sun, G Sobreviela… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Understanding and controlling modal coupling in micro/nanomechanical devices is integral
to the design of high-accuracy timing references and inertial sensors. However, insight into …

Optically levitated nanoparticle as a model system for stochastic bistable dynamics

F Ricci, RA Rica, M Spasenović, J Gieseler… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Nano-mechanical resonators have gained an increasing importance in nanotechnology
owing to their contributions to both fundamental and applied science. Yet, their small …